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Thursday, January 27, 2011

Line of the Day

From an oped about the treatment meted out to Veena Malik on Kamran Shahid's tabloidy Front Lineprogramme on Express, titled "Our Obsession With the Inane" by Kamila Hyat in The News today:

"Of course a Pakistani man cavorting with a Hindu man would not have raised so much as an eyebrow."

If for some reason, you wonder what we're getting at, read the line again. For all we know, this may not be a typo and she may have a point...

Have been meaning to do a post on this whole issue but have been truly busy and fear it may already be too late. Meanwhile, DJ Shahrukh has come up with probably the best summarization of the saga and definitely the funniest:

Princess Veena Malik is symbol of freedom, dignity and courage against mullah’s hostility to liberty and radical chauvinist media’s obsession with religiousity by soft peddling terrorism and extremism, by targetting minorities, women and children and by projecting Aafia & Qadri as national heroes, which is hostility to liberty.

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